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“The European Union will contribute about $3 billion starting next year to help poorer countries deal with climate change,” but has not determined a long term commitment.

Sens. Kerry (D-MA), Graham (R-SC), and Lieberman (I-CT) reaffirmed their commitment to building the green economy with a “greenhouse gas emissions reduction target in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020,” although they also call for “increased incentives for offshore oil and gas drilling and government support for nuclear power plant construction.”

Health Care

“Senate moderates who are the linchpin to passing a health care reform bill raised fresh worries Thursday about a proposed Medicare expansion, complicating Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hopes of putting together a filibuster-proof majority for the legislation in the coming days,” Politico is reporting.

Ryan Grim pens this obituary: “The public health insurance option died on Thursday, December 10, 2009, after a months-long struggle with Senate parliamentary procedure. The time of death was recorded as 11:12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.”

Steven Pearlstein loves Mitch Daniels. “The good Mitch, by contrast, is a principled but practical conservative who respects the intelligence of voters and would rather get something done than score political points,” he writes.

Economy

Goldman Sachs, “moving to defuse public outrage over its pay, said its top 30 executives will receive no cash bonuses for 2009 despite the firm’s expected record profits.

Bloomberg reports that U.S. taxpayers may gain $1.1 to $1.3 billion for Bank of America’s TARP warrants. Treasury has been “under pressure to get higher prices for warrants” after it sold earlier warrants for 66 percent of their value.

Immigration

A new report shows that young Latinos “retain a strong identification with their immigrant parents’ homelands but also remain optimistic about their future in this country despite lower- than-average levels of education and income.”

“Several American men arrested in Pakistan this week amid suspicion that they were plotting terrorist attacks planned to go to Afghanistan,” a Pakistani police interrogation report said. “The report, dated Thursday, sheds more light on a case that led Pakistani police to arrest five Americans Wednesday at a home in Sargodha, a town about 120 miles south of Islamabad.”

Suspected Jewish settlers attacked a mosque in the northern West Bank, burning holy books and spraying threatening graffiti in Hebrew on the building, Palestinian officials and Israeli police said. Extremists broke into the mosque in the village of Yasuf, near the city of Nablus, and burned Muslim holy books and prayers carpets, while sprayed slogans on the floor reading “Price tag – greetings from Effi.”

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